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63575 — LONDON Jack. The Abysmal Brute. Original decorated cloth. New York: The Century Co. 1913. with LONDON Jack. Signed check to Johannes Reimers drawn on Central Bank Oakland. First edition. BAL 11945. Woodbridge 109. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper "Dear Johannes:- Fondly yours Jack London. Glen Ellen Calif. June 17 1913." Johannes Reimers 1858-1953 had moved to California from Norway in 1880. He early established himself as a landscape artist and later became a landscape architect for the Santa Fe Railroad and designed neighborhoods in Berkeley and Stockton. Reimers also wrote a novel Unto the Heights of Simplicity. He was a close friend of Jack London. Charmian London in The Book of Jack London wrote "'The Crowd' were all there 12 January 1902 and among them a young Norwegian writer Johannes Reimers whose novel 'The Heights of Simplicty' just out he presented to Jack. This man became one of Jack's close friends and in time one of his favorite painters." On 4 May 1905 London spoke to the Critic Club at Reimers' home in Stockton. In the summer of 1906 Reimers supervised the planting of trees vines and shrubs and a pyracantha hedge at the Wolf House. Some rubbing to spine ends a bit of speckling to spine else a very good copy. The check has been endorsed by Reimers on the verso. unknown